J. Anthony Blair is a prominent international figure in argumentation studies. He is among
the originators of informal logic, an author of textbooks on the informal logic approach to …

Following a Toulmian account of argument analysis and evaluation, I offer a unitary schema
for, so called, deductive and inductive types of analogical arguments. This schema is able to …

Experimental and quasi-experimental studies of student writing have presented evidence for
the positive effect of feedback and criteria-referenced assessment. Furthermore, scholars …

Abstract The Problem Statement (PS) section of a thesis, usually a subsection of the first
chapter, is supposed to justify the objectives of the study. Postgraduate students are often …

I argue that conductions are a special type of inference indeed, but that this does not mean
that we need to develop novel standards of inference goodness or specific argument …

Stephen Toulmin publicó en 1958 The Uses of Argument, un libro dedicado a discutir la
dimensión epistemológica de las ciencias del comportamiento, como la psicología, la …

By presenting an argument, a proponent commits himself or herself to the adequacy of the
connection between the argument's premises and its conclusion. What is this connection …

Philosophers deny a proposal for actions can be deduced from arguments for or against the
proposal because they may be incompatible. Nevertheless, people in general, and …

En pragma-dialéctica se distingue entre diferencias de opinión mixtas, en las que ambas
partes en disputa sostienen una posición, y diferencias de opinión no-mixtas, en las que …

I show that in our theoretical representations of argument, vicious infinite regresses of self-
reference may arise with respect to each of the three usual, informal criteria of argument …